Choreographers’ Sandpit invites dancers and choreographers to a “training of ideas”, or better into a space of play, where the participants will develop an on-the-spot short movement material, or show a sketchy, unfinished material from another creative process. It is mainly about an exchange and development of diverse raw choreographic and dramaturgical strategies in view of different parameters. Choreographic Sandpit is primarily a form of creative get together that follows a simple question “where can a certain material lead and how to approach it? The workshop is intended to dancers and choreographers who are interested in an exchange of creative approaches, an expansion of their associations and ideas, a research through unburdened play/playfulness, collective creation as a way that doesn’t (necessarily) lead to a project.

Living the Good Life – by a variety of means humans try to control their nature and are thereby confronted with the phenomenon of time and the speed by which it passes by. Where, in the 19th century the time-machine seemed to permit humans to transfer their intact body into different eras, it seems that at the beginning of the 21st century the body itself manifests as a time-machine, as an ensemble of different time-zones and – horizons beneath a common skin.

Mush Room is part of a series of modular performances The Perfect Garden. In the temporary second hand paradises by the visual artist Michel Blazy Liquid Loft deal with possible concepts of living and being perfect critically, but also with a grain of salt.

Dance Communication Lab is part of the programme of the international network Dance Explorations Beyond Front@, which includes artists from Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Great Britain, and Slovenia. DCL was devised with an intention that artists from different countries meet in other environments to encourage their cooperation. In the frame of the two year project Bridging New Territories, DCL creative processes and events take place in all the participating countries.

This year’s DCL at Front@ Festival is a week long creative process, including photographers, video artists, musicians, dancers, and choreographers, who will present their work at the concluding event of the festival in Murska Sobota.